March 18, 2005
"NO SUCH THING AS AN EX-MARINE":
Europe tries to keep the Wolf at bay (Sanjay Suri, 3/20/05, Asia Times)
"I don't believe the EU can block this," said Greg Austin, research director of think-tank Foreign Policy Centre in London. "It will be difficult for EU member states to politically come together, and there won't be a firm EU position on this."That would make a virtual certainty of the appointment as World Bank chief a political figure many see as more likely to take out a country like Somalia than to take poverty out of it.
In point of fact, Mr. Wolfowitz has done as much to help Somalia restore some kind of functioning state as anyone, at least implicitly backing former U.S. Marine, Hussein Aidid. Posted by Orrin Judd at March 18, 2005 6:48 AM
One cannot 'take poverty out of a country' without removing those who perpetuate it, namely the warlords, satraps, thugs, and wannabes who do not give a tinker's damn about the poor.
Do leftists really want all their pet places (Africa, Palestine, NK, France) to be as corrupt as possible?
Posted by: jim hamlen at March 18, 2005 9:23 AMMr. Hamlen: It seems that there is an iron triangle between NGO's, the corrupt rulers of poor countries, and leftists in general. The poverty caused by the oppression and corruption keeps the NGO's going, which gives leftists something to write about and organizations for which to work.
Talk about your military-industrial complexes, the foreign misery-NGO complex is as big a porker, if not bigger.
So yes, there may actually be a want to perpetuate misery so as not to get tossed out of work.
Ah, so cynical today I am. Must be the gray Michigan weather finally getting to me. ;)
Posted by: Mikey at March 18, 2005 2:26 PM